Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-15


tatives for the time elected-four years
and take part in congressional business.
Congress meets once in two years.
Each State elects three senators. For
every 5000 inhabitants in each State one
representative is elected and one more for
an excess of $1,000. Atpresent there are
u senators and % representatives elected
from the seven States and the Federal
district
There are also five territories and two
agricultural settlements. The area of the
entire country is about 403,276 square
miles, population, about u millions.
The State of Carabobo, in which is situat-
ed this city, though small in area, is per-
haps the richest, agriculturally consider
ed. The country around Valencia, the
capital of the State, is very fertile. There
are many large coffee haciendas. On
some of these haciendas from 3.000.0 600 to
1900, 900 quintals of coffee are annually
raised As you already know full we'll
how coffee, one of the principal articles
produced in this country, is grown, that
shall not now be told. And perhaps to
tell you how coffee of a very "inferior'
grade is advanced to poor" how "poor'
becomes 'fair"; "fair", good" and
good, "prme." would send the market
far below p pesos per quintal and smash
some of the buyers and sellers-as this
might be the effect. it must remain I'M
told. What care we as long as our coffee
Is good and the price satisfactory. to
every one but the purchaser. As the
haciendas and their product no longer
claim attention it may be well enough to
go light for few minutes on another
subject you wished touched upon-the
social customs of the place. \ residence
of six months or so in place reveals life
not in all its phases. And | must say the
absence of drunkenness. in public at least.
among all classes. the white. the black,
the straw-colored the high, the low and
the middle class is something quite as
founding, especially when it is known
all kinds of liquors are sold. some as low
even a. one cent glass or drink. If one
should chance to see fellow with very
irregular oscillatory movement standing
before a lamp-post and with thick tongue.
soldering mouth and circumambient
gestculation, interrogating the post, it
is known he is no native, for he speaks
drunken English. With scores of drink
inc places, a drunken man is quite a
curiosity. Wine. beer and other liquors
are used at tables quite "a common as
water, tea or coffee are with Us. ladies par
taking of wine or beer quite as freely as
men. 1t may be the high license poll
ticians of New York and the policy pro-
hbitionists of Vermont are not on the
right track after all, and that temperance
would he best promoted if the use of the
lighter liquors We're allowed at table and
whenever wanted. aS here. There might
be less drunkenness there certainly would
be Il good deal less hypocrisy and less
perjury.
think it must have been some carping
old bachelor-though dislike 70 speak
otherwise than gently of the brother
hood of which am member-who said,
ideas are like boards; men only get them
when they are grown up and women
never have any. He may have had ref
erence to the women of this country. |
,han't say he did or did not: but do say
there is a splendid opportunity. as far as
know, for the ladies of this country to
lose any number of ideas they may have.
How: you ask. Well, they seem to have
no independence no walk-abroad spirit.
They just sit inside the barred windows
and look out on the street. year after
year, at minus quantity,or they always
see but the same things, which amounts
to looking at something algebraicallv less
than nothing. If they chance to walk
out which is very seldom. unless they
go to church, they are attended by their
padre or their madre or some ancestor as
chaperon.
The young girls, the old ones too, sit
every evening. in their bentand. or sash
less and paneless window, and await the
coming of their best fellow, if they have
one. If not they sit there Just the same,
probably to get one. Mind, they are all
very bonitaS senOritds. The best young
man approaches the house of his enanaOr-
ala. But he doesn't go into the house
No. he just looks at her and talks at her
and negotates any other business the
nature of the case requires-all between
| the vertical window rods. Ladies of the
upper class never 90 shopping unless in
IA carriage. More frequently, however,
the servant is sent to the store to procure
samples of such goods as are desired
To carry package in the hand on the
street is something no lady or gentleman
should do. This is the business of SER
wants only.
Extremely handsome faces are not too
onnuon bara thouub thara arc many